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Carlovingian

American  
[kahr-luh-vin-jee-uhn] / ˌkɑr ləˈvɪn dʒi ən /

adjective

  1. Carolingian.


Carlovingian British  
/ ˌkɑːləʊˈvɪndʒɪən /

adjective

  1. history a variant of Carolingian

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But in the Carlovingian romances, which arose at a time when the enthusiasm of the Crusades was permeating Christendom, events were represented in a wholly different light.

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The Counts of Barcelona had been Carlovingian vassals, and even owned a shadowy allegiance to the first Capetians.

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The dense ignorance of the tenth century, which followed the evanescent Carlovingian civilization, had begun in the eleventh to yield to the first faint pulsations of intellectual movement.

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He instituted the school for it in the Lateran, whence the Carlovingian monarchs obtained teachers of singing and organ-playing.

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The names of these princes suffice to remind us of the decline of the Carlovingian race.

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